Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-07-02-Speech-3-151"
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"Commissioner, the ostensible reason for your reform of the Common Agricultural Policy was that this would give Europe room for manoeuvre in the WTO negotiations. The compromise agreed in Luxembourg last week largely follows the Commission’s recommendations. Let me ask you a few questions. Can you tell me today what new horizons this reform opens in the negotiations? Can you explain to me what agriculture will gain despite a reform that will have very harmful consequences for our farmers?
European consumers are making ever-tougher demands about food safety, product quality and production conditions. These are resulting in ever-tighter constraints on farmers regarding environmental protection and animal welfare. Do you think you can meet their expectations by requiring that only products that meet the same standards can enter the European market? If not, that would distort competition on our own markets and penalise our own products. In the matter of public health, the Union has opted for a ban on meat treated with hormones. Will you firmly defend that position, since we do not want it called into question on any pretext?
Our agriculture also produces very high quality produce that is recognised by designations of origin that are often the spearhead of the regional economy. How do you intend to get our WTO partners to accept them?
Finally, we support the Union’s moratorium on GMOs against the complaint filed by the United States. We are looking to you, Commissioner, to maintain an offensive and unyielding stance in defence of European agriculture and consumer demands and to refuse to make any concessions in the matter of opening markets. Yielding everything to liberalism would be the end of European agriculture."@en1
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